One of her parents was adopted and she was trying to see if we were related as I had placed information from the same geographical area she was researching on my Ancestry.com tree for the same surnamed individual. There were other coincidences - they had the same occupation, religion, place where they immigrated from and where they immigrated to about the same time (early 1900's). We were thinking they were related but after comparing our DNA results, they weren't blood relations.
The Ancestry member had received an email from another member who was contacted by someone in the Netherlands who found World War 2 dog tags using a metal detector and wanted to send them to family. I was contacted since we had the same surname - Koss - as the found tags who once belonged to Joseph E. Koss who died in 1944 in Holland.
I reached out to the memorial owner at Findagrave.com but he was not a relative. If you are a family member of a Joseph Koss please email me (see contact me page) and I will happily connect you so you can get the tags.
I've blogged in the past about scammers and I've read about fake dog tags being sold in Viet Nam but this does not smell like a scam to me but to keep my readers safe - I'll play middleman for you. Using a metal detector and finding a lost object is typical in my world as that's one of my husband's hobbies and he has found and returned lost articles for people for years.
Funny how I've been contacted by folks living in the Netherlands twice in the past few weeks - maybe that's where I should go visit next!
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